sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 63 #36 March 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63.36 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of Third Party products or announcements. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com my email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more article numbers (e.g. 62.32) in the Subject line. Please try to place the article numbers in the Subject line, not in the message body. Articles that are of the correct format will be answered quickly by a program. I will eventually anwser all others. -johnj (8 articles, 78Kb, 1832 lines - about 28 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 63.28 4 70 Aggregate: new version of NetMake 63.29 6 99 VXM: Fault Tolerant PAX 2.x 63.30 4 91 SoftNet Utilities (NetWare) 63.31 3 59 GENROCO SBus IPI-2 Disk Controller 63.32 16 376 CERES: Environmentally Sound Development 63.33 10 243 SUG Perl Seminar, MAY-27-94, Boston, MA 63.34 9 245 Information Retrieval Conference 63.35 26 649 Usenix Unix App Development Symposium Totals: 78 1832 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 63.28 Aggregate releases new version of NetMake From anne@aggregate.com Aggregate Computing, Inc. released a new verion of the distributed make tool. The NetMake 1.3.2 usability enhancements give users more detailed output information in an easy to read format. (70 lines) 63.29 VXM Technologies Announces Fault Tolerant PAX 2.x From: Franco Vitaliano <0005129988@mcimail.com> VXM Technologies has announced Release 2.0 of its PAX software for SunOs 4.1.x SPARC systems. 2.0 is the new fault tolerant version of VXM's PAX distributed load balancing system. PAX 2.0 automatically finds idle network CPU cycles. PAX 2.0 is very good at managing and running largely independent chunks of work, such as: distributed batch jobs, client/server applications, and discrete, coarse grained network parallel applications. PAX is also an ideal software solution for downsizing mainframe class jobs onto low cost, high performance, networked workstation clusters. Most applications do not have to be rewritten to take advantage of PAX 2.0. (99 lines) 63.30 SoftNet Utilities/NetWare SunLink Competitive Upgrade From: jal@puzzle.com Puzzle Systems' SoftNet Utilities is a high performance Novell 2.2, 3.11 and 3.12 server emulator for UNIX systems. Specific to SPARC platforms, it supports both SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.3 environments and is designed to allow easy integration of SPARC platforms into existing Novell NetWare environments. (91 lines) 63.31 Enhanced IPI-2 Disk Controller for SBus from GENROCO From: emily@genroco.com (Emily Otte) The IPI-242S can control up to eight IPI-2 and/or enhanced IPI-2 disk drives, including the Seagate Technology 5.25" Elite-3 with Zone Bit Recording (ZBR) and 24 megabyte per second buffers. The controller can be used with either SunOS 4.1.3 or Solaris 2.3 operating systems. (59 lines) 63.32 CERES: Knowledge Network for Environmentally Sound Product Development From: rar@cerc.wvu.edu (Y. V. Reddy) Ramana Reddy This paper expounds the rationale of the CERES initiative to create a Global Knowledge Network for product development engineers. Engineers designing products will have the benefit of world-wide databases on a variety of engineering data regarding manufacturing processes, design for disassembly methods, toxic hazards, recyclable materials, remediation, etc. First working meeting of the organizing committee is scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C, during April 13 - 15, 1994 Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia during May 29 - June 4, 1994. (376 xines) 63.33 SUG Perl Seminar, MAY-27-94, Boston, MA From: troll@sug.org (A. Newman) Perl - Is it the hottest UNIX utility in years? Probably. Will it provide a faster, cleaner, leaner, and more readable way to do almost any job that you used to do with one of the shells and many you used to do in C? Definitely! (243 lines) 63.34 SIGIR 94 Call for Participation From: Alan.Smeaton@compapp.dcu.ie (Alan Smeaton CA) The 17th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'94) takes place at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, from 3rd to 7th July, 1994. (245 lines) 63.35 USENIX UNIX APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT SYMPOSIUM APRIL 25-28, 1994 From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia) MARRIOTT HOTEL - EATON CENTRE TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA Sponsored by the USENIX Association and in cooperation with UniForum Canada WHO SHOULD ATTEND: The UNIX Applications Development Symposium will provide valuable information to designers and programmers who plan to port existing applications into the UNIX environment or move development and maintenance teams from various proprietary environments to UNIX. (649 lines) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. 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